The destruction of German conservatism by Merkel and Kohl

Conventional German politics is still paralysed because being German is still almost impossibly difficult, and being European is pretty difficult, too.

John Penrose: Why we need a Sovereign Wealth Fund

Economically, it could be transformational, as it has been in Norway, which established its fund back in the early 1990s. It is now worth over a trillion dollars.

Daniel Kawczynski: Britain should support Polish demands for reparations from Germany

If the EU is serious about abolishing the idea of a ‘second-class Europe’ – which is the product of 20th Century occupations – it must support us too.

Merkel is doomed – but will not be replaced soon enough to help Brexit

The German consensus which placed no significant party to the right of the CDU, thus bolstering it as a governing force, is breaking down.

Nola Leach: Hammond should help reduce a burden on taxpayers by boosting transferable allowances

Ignoring the family unit means pressures on benefits – and burdening some poorer families with the highest effective marginal tax rate in the developed world.

Henry Newman: Voters know Brexit might be messy, but that doesn’t mean they want it called off

Those who still refuse to accept we’re really going to leave the EU are misreading the process, the politics, and the people.

James Cartlidge: We should consider joining EFTA – which would give us the brake on unskilled EU migration that we may need

If we are also out of CAP, CFP and direct ECJ jurisdiction, able to negotiate our own trade deals and in the Single Market, it might not be such a bad outcome after all.

Ashley Fox: I believe that there will be a Brexit deal. But Hammond must none the less use his Budget to prepare for the worst.

If the measures involved prove unnecessary, any money lost will be a fraction of the financial gains from having secured a mutually acceptable deal.

James Arnell: Ready on Day One for Brexit 4) Ensuring a competitive, outward-looking UK

After leaving the EU, we must ensure we are well-positioned in terms of regulation, taxation, immigration and – crucially – foreign languages.

Sanjoy Sen: Nudged out of a gas-guzzler, I’m an environmentalist’s dream. But how much difference does switching to hybrids make?

Whatever else unfolds in the coming years, we need to look near and far for learnings and solutions to our emissions challenges.

Howard Flight: Young people are better off than they were. But they face two specific problems.

Young people eat out, often several times a week – my fiancée and I could only afford to eat out once a month at most. They are also better paid, absolutely and relatively.

One of the main dangers for Brexit is the German preference for going on talking indefinitely

Berlin has a quite different, and far more leisurely, sense of time to London.

Harris defends the deal Chamberlain struck with Hitler at Munich

His new thriller is readable, but lets the British Prime Minister and Establishment of 1938 off far too lightly.

The time has not yet come – and may not do so at all – to break off the Brexit talks

The Government should be as Ready on Day One as it can be: Deal or No Deal. To help achieve this end and reboot economic policy, Gove should go to the Treasury.

John Stevens: Homage to Caledonia

There is a case for the EU guaranteeting internal as well as external frontiers – which would make Scottish independence impossible were the UK to remain an EU member.